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Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Voyager Spacecraft - The Grand Tour

The first mission to go all way out past jupiter distance and come backand e lumber acte. We do a deep space manoeuvre as we're leaving the l for swarm that targets our third earth gravity assist, which sets us up then to fly by patroclus ataminitius at the time that we want. And so this is all carefully orchestrated, as mike was saying, and really quite an accomplishment of mission design. Some of the people who found the trajectories, those magical trajectories that resulted in the grand tour by the two voyager spacecraft are still around.

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